If you want to see a studio movie with an extreme contempt for its studio audience (which is part of the appeal for the film's supporters) then it'll be an interesting watch, but that's a bit too academic for me.
I’m all about subverting and challenging our expectations as fans and prefer something new and different in many cases over “always giving the nerds what the nerds want” but this just sounds so cynical. I can already see the 10 year anniversary re-evaluation masterpiece articles on Joker 2.
I agree with many of these but #9 and #10 are both movies I enjoyed enough to watch twice, and no worst of the year list is credible without the inclusion of Lumina, Founders Day, and Mother of the Bride.
Saturday Morning All-Star Hits is the entire reason I was interested in seeing Y2K at all; I'd say it's up there as one of the most underrated Netflix originals out there.
I don't know if you watched Time Cut, but that's far and away the best-worst movie I've seen all year.
I have not seen most of these yet but was planning on seeing Y2K this weekend.
I saw Werewolves most recently. I will go to bat for Lou Diamond Phillips and that if he had more screen time, say actually being the one to go on the journey with Grillo to get back to his family, it would have improved the movie by at least 20%. I enjoyed it as a goodbad werewolf movie with great practical effects but as a werewolf movie connoisseur it’s a one time watch. Now I just wish they would make a good good werewolf movie with great effects.
Kraven the Hunter is just the antithesis of what I can tolerate to watch. I’m pretty much out on the super hero genre unless it’s Spiderverse animation or until they reboot X-Men one day. Or a Man Thing movie. I’ll roll out for Man Thing.
I hate being a reactionary jerk. But a Kraven The Hunter movie CAN work! The issue is, he hunts EVERYTHING. If he sees something, he wants to hunt it! He loves beating up and killing animals and carrying them around as trophies! Like, his principle would be that he would hate another person if they were hunting animals with a LOT of money and resources, and monetizing it.
But in this movie, he's like a PETA Avenger. He's only killing humans, and he's buddies with animals, maybe he kind of talks to them? It reflects a dumb sort of cowardice, like early on the mandate was, our lead character can't kill animals.
There's an actually interesting bit at the end where Kraven's brother is like, our dad was a toxic male, and you think you're different but you've murdered endless people. I was onboard for that! The villain who has NO IDEA he's a villain! The collateral damage of toxic masculinity had NEVER occurred to this guy! Of course it's the first interesting moment in this movie, and it's at minute 110.
That sounds awful. It’s just millions and millions of dollars going into making these terrible movies that nobody really wants. It’s just time for this genre to take a long nap for about 7-10 yrs again. I just don’t know which of these is finally gonna be the Batman and Robin to do it.
Borderlands was pretty tragic. I love all the actors involved, but the plot was awful (and predictable) and it was too long and... and... and
Ah, I suppose I would have had to sit through this one if I were a professional. It certainly looked like a contender.
Don't waste your time.
I watched the new "Joker" movie last night on Max for the first time. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, but it sure is one of the dullest.
I saw Joker 2 dropped on MAX but just cannot bring myself to watch it. I did not care for Joker 1 so this one looks rough.
If you want to see a studio movie with an extreme contempt for its studio audience (which is part of the appeal for the film's supporters) then it'll be an interesting watch, but that's a bit too academic for me.
I’m all about subverting and challenging our expectations as fans and prefer something new and different in many cases over “always giving the nerds what the nerds want” but this just sounds so cynical. I can already see the 10 year anniversary re-evaluation masterpiece articles on Joker 2.
I agree with many of these but #9 and #10 are both movies I enjoyed enough to watch twice, and no worst of the year list is credible without the inclusion of Lumina, Founders Day, and Mother of the Bride.
Well, I'm not a masochist.
Awesome list! Sad to Werewolves isn't fun. Glad to hear that a film about Pop Tarts is as bad as it sounds. Thank you for the warnings!
This is a FANTASTIC year-in-review post.
Saturday Morning All-Star Hits is the entire reason I was interested in seeing Y2K at all; I'd say it's up there as one of the most underrated Netflix originals out there.
I don't know if you watched Time Cut, but that's far and away the best-worst movie I've seen all year.
Time Cut? Is that the Netflix time travel slasher?
Yep, insofar as it's anything
I have not seen most of these yet but was planning on seeing Y2K this weekend.
I saw Werewolves most recently. I will go to bat for Lou Diamond Phillips and that if he had more screen time, say actually being the one to go on the journey with Grillo to get back to his family, it would have improved the movie by at least 20%. I enjoyed it as a goodbad werewolf movie with great practical effects but as a werewolf movie connoisseur it’s a one time watch. Now I just wish they would make a good good werewolf movie with great effects.
You posting an upcoming 10 best list as well?
Nice! Look forward to it.
Kraven the Hunter is just the antithesis of what I can tolerate to watch. I’m pretty much out on the super hero genre unless it’s Spiderverse animation or until they reboot X-Men one day. Or a Man Thing movie. I’ll roll out for Man Thing.
I hate being a reactionary jerk. But a Kraven The Hunter movie CAN work! The issue is, he hunts EVERYTHING. If he sees something, he wants to hunt it! He loves beating up and killing animals and carrying them around as trophies! Like, his principle would be that he would hate another person if they were hunting animals with a LOT of money and resources, and monetizing it.
But in this movie, he's like a PETA Avenger. He's only killing humans, and he's buddies with animals, maybe he kind of talks to them? It reflects a dumb sort of cowardice, like early on the mandate was, our lead character can't kill animals.
There's an actually interesting bit at the end where Kraven's brother is like, our dad was a toxic male, and you think you're different but you've murdered endless people. I was onboard for that! The villain who has NO IDEA he's a villain! The collateral damage of toxic masculinity had NEVER occurred to this guy! Of course it's the first interesting moment in this movie, and it's at minute 110.
That sounds awful. It’s just millions and millions of dollars going into making these terrible movies that nobody really wants. It’s just time for this genre to take a long nap for about 7-10 yrs again. I just don’t know which of these is finally gonna be the Batman and Robin to do it.
I'm gonna be doing a best of the year at some point, but there's so much to see! I'm doing at least three 2024 movies today!